And, Among the Winners Were...

The battle for world literacy is too often a story of unsung heroes. That’s one reason the NALD newsletter will bring to you on a regular basis a list of those individuals, programs and organizations honoured with international, national and provincial recognition for outstanding work in the global literacy initiative.

National

1998 Recipient of the Learner Achievement Award for the Assembly of First Nations:
Jennifer Murdock, from Six Nations Reserve

Provincial

The Co-operators 1998 Learner Achievement Award Recipients:
AB - Tom Prevost, Calgary
BC - Kate Nesbitt, Telkwa
MB - April Young, a graduate of Beat the Street
NB - Robert Kirkpatrick and Louis Morris
NF - Ivy Bennett
NS - Edna Martin
ON - Melissa Crowther, George Mole and Bruce Dawson
PEI - Eva Manning
SK - Linda Schwitzer
YK - Darryl Haberland

New Brunswick
Minister of State for Literacy’s Annual Alpha Awards - 1998 Recipients

Corporate Alpha Award : Bank of Montreal
Voluntary-Service Organization Awards : Fédération d’alphabétisation du N.-B., Literacy Council of Fredericton and Partenariat Saint-André
Volunteer Awards : Rita Cormier of Bathurst, Dorothy Dearborn of Hampton, Heather Harris of Riverview and Guy E. Rossignol of Saint-André
Alpha Award for Facilitator Excellence : Monique Bouchard of Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Student Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement : Francis Arsenault, Galagher Ridge; Jacques Arseneau, Beresford; Johanne Chiasson, Menneval; Euclide Leger, St. Phillips; Marcel Levesque, Saint-Léonard, Donald McLean, Saint John; Allain Michaud, Saint John; Louis Morris, Bellefond; Mike Ogden, Moncton; Françoise Robichaud, Campbellton; François Roy, Edmundston; and Erika Salazar, Saint John. |
Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Early Childhood Literacy : Ann F. Roussel of Robertville

Northwest Territories
1998 PGI Learner Achievement Award Recipients : Alvina Lepine (sponsored by NWT Power Corp.) and Edwin Morin (sponsored by The Co-operators)

Quebec
Literacy Partners of Quebec Literacy Award 1998 Recipient : Frances Ackerman, Director of The Fraser-Hickson Library in Montreal


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